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You can't argue with success. Made it to the finals on the back of Tiago's elite defense in the WCF, paired with Duncan and Parker's clutch shooting, of course.
It's time to move this guy along.
You can't argue with success. Made it to the finals on the back of Tiago's elite defense in the WCF, paired with Duncan and Parker's clutch shooting, of course.
Tiago = Rasho
That's not fair to Rasho.
Sadly the Spurs usually collect system guys that aren't very attractive to other teams making trades unlikely.
Asik, Favors, Williams, Chandler, Faried, Gasol would all be improvements ButspursSpurs don't have anything expendable that anybody wants
If you want that le you have to throw money picks anything you can. Duncan deserves one more this organization owes him big
Lets trade him and watch our defense and rebounding improve.... Good so its agreed?
Splitter is a role player. He's never gonna be an all-star big. You take the bad with the good. I'll take his soft offense if he brings it on the defensive end.
So he shot 56% last season with no one playing defense on him?
Made it last year by getting lucky matchups and injuries to other teams stars.
Depends what you get back for him.
I've overreacted a little bit. Tiago isn't as soft as Rasho, he's just a very, very weak finisher. I think with Rasho, he was just too mentally soft to be aggressive on the offense end, he was a little scared out there, Tiago isn't IMO. It's just that for some reason he is a very weak finisher. It could be a combination of his pathetic leaping ability, possibly both upper and lower body lack of strength. Not sure, but I don't think he is mentally soft.
Splitter is a physically limited player as compared with other NBA players.
Well, one of the concerns going into this season was if Tiago was going to mail it in after getting paid. I don't think you can conclusively say that at this stage, but he's certainly been underwhelming.
Wrong. The Spurs can offer salary cap relief. In this days NBA half the NBA wants to shed salary more than winning. Our front office just needs to man up and make a deal. Bonner is going to be a UFA after this season, Green is making beans. The front office can do something. But will they?
If he weren't a giant pussy he'd be way out of the Spurs' price range though. Tall players who don't struggle to move their feet are a rarity.
You have to believe that these guys have friends around the league that they could convince to come to san Antonio for a le run.
It's sad that we keep crappy 1 dimentional players around and let them watch games on the bench all night long for what? You don't learn the game that way and you don't learn the system.
Spurs paid dudes to warm the bench and play maybe 4 minutes of ball once every 2 weeks. We waste salary on a big who sucks at perimeter defense and looks good on defense in the paint because all he does is put his hands up. He's too slow to react to athletic bigs but his posturing because of his limitations make him hard to score over but you can easily create space around him or blow past him.
Offensively I have no idea how he can be that bad, when you can't back down guys that are smaller than you both weight and height wise than you plain suck ass. He has one post move and it's a ty hook. How is Tim not teaching him basics or even call in Robinson or Kevin Willis it's just sad
Tiago is one of the best defensive bigs in the NBA.
It's funny to me cause isn't the league he came from arguably the second best behind the NBA? Dude was a MVP in that league and won championships. For that type résumé I would've at least thought dude would average upwards of 10/10, respectively.
Last edited by Jwash_1986; 12-26-2013 at 01:17 PM.
I want to add a stat, available now with the new tracking cameras.
This is a ranking of players ordered by what % of "available rebounds" (vicinity 3.5ft), a player gets.
Top 100
No he is not. I don't know who started that BS.
The stats don't lie.
Eh I don't know if that's all that relevant. Just watching the Spurs you know Tiago gives up a lot of defensive rebounds because he boxes out guys and lets other people have the defensive rebounds.
He was killing it on the offensive boards before he got hurt. A whole lot more than Duncan or Kawhi.
And this thread is typical overreaction. It's the same with Tiago and spurstalk every year. He'll have a good stretch where he'll outplay his contract and put it together on both ends. ST overrates him. Then he'll do the opposite and ST will underrate him. He's not a complete big, you don't get those for 9 mil a year. If he had a consistent offensive game he'd be a top 5 big in the league. Marc Gasol is getting paid 15 mil a year, and it's not like his offensive game is lightyears better than Splitters'.
I woudlnt say light years but he can put the ball in the hole on his own accord and not just just from drop offs to him from penetrations in the lane and the pick and roll.
when has that little right handed hook 5-8 feet away from the basket ever fallen consistently?
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